The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which oversees the doctor training programs known as residencies, is also focusing on the issue.
More than 62,000 people -- many of them medical professionals and their families -- signed a petition this year calling on medical associations to track physician suicides, provide confidential counseling, and require doctor training programs to address a "culture of abuse" too often characterized by bullying, harassment, and humiliation.
The Olympus Corporation, a maker of scientific imaging equipment and cameras, uncovered "irregularities" at a doctor-training program in Brazil, the chairman said, setting off a 7 percent decline in its share price, which closed at $17.60 on Wednesday.
Medicare patients sometimes seek care at doctor-training programs like one affiliated with the University of Colorado in Fort Collins.
The authorities who evaluate medical education have, for the first time, begun to crack down on doctor-training programs that force interns and residents to work excessively long hours.
Mistakes and neglect at times have debilitated King/Drew's pharmacy and doctor-training programs, which affect nearly every patient admitted.
More than anything, Velasco's troubles highlight potentially dangerous lapses in the supervision of King/Drew's doctor-training programs, founded more than three decades ago to turn out talented physicians to serve the nation's impoverished minority communities.
In August 1998, in the hope of attracting more doctors to primary care training, doctors completing training programs in Family Medicine were designated as Family Physicians to distinguish them from general doctors.
In the United Kingdom, doctors undergo a training program that includes 2 years of foundation training (junior doctors) and 6 years of specialist training before they qualify to become senior doctors consultants and surgeons (see Supplementary Data for further information).
Evidence suggests that patients fare less well at night when they are cared for by doctors in training programs.
Ironically, in Iraq, emphasis has been placed on family medicine as a specialty for newly graduated doctors although no training program exists for undergraduates.
